Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
In southern Lebanon, two children are among the at least 10 people dead, reportedly killed
“in a drone strike on the car they were riding in today.”
President Trump intervened yesterday to stop Israel from striking Bay Route as Iran called off peace talks with the U.S. until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon ended. And here's Jawad Risqallah has more from Bay Route. The new deadly Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon threatened to derail Trump's efforts at the ceasefire deal with Iran.
Iran has conditioned any ceasefire deal with the U.S. must include a truth in Lebanon. President Trump said he spoke representatives of the Iran-backed Hezbollah who agreed to stop shooting at the Israeli soldiers, and he said Israel had agreed to do the same. The Lebanese embassy in Washington further clarified Hezbollah had agreed to a US proposal for the mutual cessation of attacks.
And the embassy said under this agreement, Israel wouldn't strike the capital bay Route, although
attacks continue elsewhere, and Hezbollah wouldn't strike Israel. The talks between Israel and Lebanese officials are said to resume this week in Washington. Jawad Risqallah and Pian use Bay Route.
“As parameters take place in six states today, a federal judge in Boston is hearing arguments”
over President Trump's executive order that calls for voting by mail. And here's Hansel O'Wang reports the U.S. Postal Service has proposed rules that would carry out parts of the order. President Trump's order from March calls for the U.S. Postal Service, which is independent of a president's administration, to come up with lists of eligible voters and only deliver
mail-in ballots of people on those lists. In response, U.S. has proposed using information from state election officials to great voter lists while making no changes to how it delivers ballots in the mail. We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial support of NPR. Almost two dozen Democratic-led states and voting rights groups are arguing in a federal
court embossed in that Trump's directives violate the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress, not the president to set federal election rules. Last month, in similar lawsuits based in Washington, D.C., a judge found it was too early for an emergency ruling that would block parts of an order that the Trump administration has not carried out yet.
“Democrats are now appealing that judge's decision on Z-Lawang and Pernus.”
Stocks opened, mixed this morning, as AI companies move toward public offerings. And here's Scott Horsley has more. And Thropic is filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a preliminary step towards selling stock to the public. And Thropic makes the popular AI chatbot Claude, private investors have already valued
the company at nearly $1 trillion. The man for artificial intelligence is boosting the fortunes of companies to provide the building blocks, stocks of both Marvel technologies, and Generac are up, Marvel designs chips for data centers, while Generac provides backup power. Crew to all prices have been bouncing up and down, but the U.S. benchmark is back above $90
a barrel. Corporal Ace has retail gasoline prices dipped about three cents a gallon overnight. Asian stocks were mixed up in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Seoul, but down in Tokyo. Scott Horsley and Pernus, Washington. On Wall Street that I was down 121 NASDAQ down eight, you're listening to NPR.
President Trump says he's appointing William Polty as acting director of national intelligence. The post-Talcy Gabbard just left. Polty's close-trump ally is also head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Chair of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, jobs he will continue in. Polty, who used to serve on the board of a family construction company and who owned a private
equity firm, has no experience with high-level national security. He also still needs Senate confirmation for this new job. A California condor became the first of its species to fly freely in Oregon in more than 120 years. According to a local restoration program, Roman Battalia from Jefferson Public Radio
has more on the bird's 380 mile journey. Condor B9 is a little over two years old and was released into the wild last year by the Northern California-based Yurok tribe as part of their Condor Restoration Program. Yurok tribe wildlife department director Tiana Williams-Closin says the condor went on a four-day trip passing through Southern Oregon.
"My 100 to 200 miles per day is not uncommon for them. She's a young bird, of course, so
the fact that she's done that is particularly incredible."
California condor is nearly when extinct because of lead poisoning and habitat loss, but restoration programs like this one have brought the wild population back up to nearly 400. The Yurok tribe is hoping to release more condor this summer. For NPR News, I'm Roman Battalia in Medford, Oregon. Wall Street is turned into mixed territory that I was down 130 points to the NASDAQ
is up 5th. I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Brazil used to have one of the fastest growing economies in the world. People called it the "country of the future." "There are songs. O Brasil. El País. Del Futur. Because it seems like we have it all, man." But then, the music stopped. On the planet Money Podcast, a lot of countries these days aren't
rich. They aren't poor. They're just kind of stuck in the middle. Why is that?
